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"The face of the operation is Briatore (referred to exclusively in the film by his colleagues and angry, chanting detractors as "Flavio"), an anthropomorphic radish who spends most of his time at QPR plotting to fire all of the managers."

At press time, Harbaugh had sent Michigan’s athletic department an envelope containing a heavily annotated seating chart, a list of the 63,000 seat views he had found unsatisfactory, and a glowing 70-page report on section 25, row 12, seat 9, which he claimed is “exactly what the great sport of football is all about.”

People have been teeing off on this on twitter. Rice gets two games but Terrelle Pryor gets five for getting free tattoos when he wasn't even in the NFL. It's also a four game suspension if you test positive for adderall. Just a farce.

"But perhaps more poignantly, he’ll be back on the field by October, when the NFL wraps itself in pink to remind us how valuable their female customers are to them."

Just a wonderful, strange world down there at the NFL office in New York. Potential year-long ban for pot, the threat of hefty fines for wearing the wrong cleats (the whole Brandon Marshall thing), but two games for a violent assault on someone. Roger Goodell hasn't perchance visited small terrestrial planet known as Earth, has he?

"Funny isn't it, how naughty dentists always make that one fatal mistake."

Assuming you're talking about Chris Kluwe, I rather doubt he's being "blackballed" for "supporting civil rights." He's not on a team because he's not a very good punter and has one of the weakest punting legs in the league, and he's old and expensive for a punter.

Plus it's very hard to want to sign a guy who makes incredibly loud noises about suing when he doesn't get his way. Michael Sam: not really a distraction. "I'm suing the team because they didn't do enough about a coach who said things I didn't like" = HUGE distraction.

Apparently, the woman married him, but was he convicted? My stance is and will always be that conviction or an admission of guilt (even a no contest plea) should be the minimum before a league suspends anybody. Charges alone mean nothing, especially with corrupt police.

Two VERY different systems of punishment, with different standards of proof, rules of evidence, etc. No one suspended for steroids is ever convicted of anything. No one suspended for bumping an official or attempting to injure an opponent is ever convicted of anything. Tropp and Conboy never saw a courtroom.

In this case, there are witnesses to Ray Rice punching a woman in the face. There is video of him DRAGGING an unconscious woman out of an elevator. Conviction or no, you suspend his ass for WAY longer than two games.

Steroids are against the NFL rules because of an unfair competitive advantage and bumping an official/ purposefully injuring an opponent happens on the field of play.

The video (of his alleged uppercut) was never released to the press. I think we both agree that Ray Rice is a sack of sh*t, but the NFL (or any league) should not be able to suspend players (and deprive them of income) when the police don't charge the player, especially for cases where the offense is routinely charged. It's the only neutral way to handle things.

I understand why the NFL suspended him (for PR and to not have protests at games), but that's not a good enough opinion, IMO.

Their CBA gives Goodell pretty wide latitude on "personal conduct." Suffice it to say, Ray Rice's conduct was less than good. If the NFL doubted the evidence, Rice likely wouldn't have been suspended at all. It's pretty clear that they tolerate Rice's behavior more than that of others who've been suspended longer.

Just from reading up on the case, it appears that he pleaded not guilty on May 1st. He was then allowed to enter into a Pre-trial Intervention Program on May 20th that allows the charges to be dropped after he completes the program along with counseling with his now wife.

Only makes sense - a player beats the living shit out of women and gets a two-game suspension. Josh Gordon wll miss the entire year for the henious crime of smoking a joint. And I guess the year long suspensions only apply for these crimes against humanity only apply to players. Havent heard anything about Mr Irsay getting asked to remove himself from the Colts now have we?

Clearly the NFL inhabits some sort of hyper-Iowa, where everything is 40 years behind the rest of us. Smoking marijuana is a significant crime (we don't want a bunch of hippies running around), gay athletes are a major distraction, but beating a woman is just part of keeping her in line. If you cross the line and go too far, well, we understand, but we need to give you a slap on the wrist (wink, wink) so it doesn't look like we're condoning it.

Let me know when the NFL progresses 40 years, and I'll start watching it again.

Point taken but, to clarify, it's the media making a stink about there being a distraction with Sam, not the NFL. Nobody actually inside the league has said anything about him being anything other than a model citizen and a rookie trying his hardest to make the team.

That why so many of you think you are doing the right thing and "standing up for women" when in reality you are just feeding a culture that has held them back for years. People can't be equal if you refuse to treat them as equals.

It's like all those people who sign Jay Leno's petition to end women's suffrage, keep fighting the good fight!